week of the mutiny, save this man, who was taken a month
after.

'On the 19th of July, Donald Stewart, otherwise Daaga, was brought
to a court-martial. On the 21st William Satchell was tried. On the
22d a court-martial was held on Edward Coffin; and on the 24th one
was held on the Yarraba chief, Maurice Ogston, whose country name
was, I believe, Mawee. Torrens was tried on the 29th.

'The sentences of these courts-martial were unknown until the 14th
of August, having been sent to Barbadoes in order to be submitted to
the Commander-in-Chief, Lieutenant-General Whittingham, who approved
of the decision of the courts, which was that Donald Stewart
(Daaga), Maurice Ogston, and Edward Coffin should suffer death by
being shot, and that William Satchell should be transported beyond
seas during the term of his natural life. I am unacquainted with
the sentence of Torrens.

'Donald Stewart, Maurice Ogston, and Edward Coffin were executed on
the 16th of August 1837, at San Josef Barracks. Nothing seemed to
have been neglected which could render the execution solemn and
impressive; the scenery and the weather gave additional awe to the
melancholy proceedings. Fronting the little eminence where the
prisoners were shot was the scene where their ill-concerted mutiny
commenced. To the right stood the long range of building on which
they had expended much of their ammunition for the purpose of
destroying their officers. The rest of the panorama was made up of
an immense view of forest below them, and upright masses of
mountains above them. Over those, heavy bodies of mist were slowly
sailing, giving a sombre appearance to the primeval woods which, in
general, covered both mountains and plains. The atmosphere
indicated an inter-tropical morning during the rainy season, and the
sun shone resplendently between dense columns of clouds.

'At half-past seven o'clock the condemned men asked to be allowed to
eat a hearty meal, as they said persons about to be executed in
Guinea were always indulged with a good repast. It is remarkable
that these unhappy creatures ate most voraciously, even while they
were being brought out of their cell for execution.

'A little before the mournful procession commenced, the condemned
men were dressed from head to foot in white habiliments trimmed with
black; their arms were bound with cords. This is not usual in
military executions, but was deemed necessary on